I finally took the time to move my gaming rig to Bazzite because I don’t boot it that often, and because I don’t want to spend half the little time I have for gaming doing updates and maintenance.
Most of my games are on an ext4-formatted secondary drive. Note: They worked perfectly on Manjaro and Nobara, the previous distros I used on this machine.
They are recognized by Steam, I can install and uninstall games just fine, it’s just that… they don’t launch. At all. Native or Proton. Like if I was on an exFAT partition. The “Launching” button switches back to “Play” almost instantly. If I move a game to my main home partition, it launches fine.
Has anyone encountered this issue before?
Where/how could I get detailed logs to try and pinpoint the issue?
Thanks!
Edit:
Solved! The issue was with fstab configuration, always specify exec AFTER users, despite the doc telling you that order doesn’t matter ;)
Wrong fstab entry :
UUID=blah-blah-blah /my/mount/point ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail,auto,exec,users,rw 0 2
Proper fstab entry (it’s subtle):
UUID=blah-blah-blah /my/mount/point ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail,auto,users,exec,rw 0 2
That’s weird with a beard. I’ve run games off a secondary drive in Bazzite with both ext4 and btrfs. Hope you figure it out.
Worst case scenario, I have to nuke this drive and start over. I’ll keep digging tho.
Wow that IS subtle. Nice job figuring that out.
I’m used to using fstab too but in my new box build, I finally went through the exercise of figuring out how to mount via systemd for the first time. Seems to work fine and is slightly less arcane. Slightly.
Haha thanks !
I would like to say I’m used to fstab too but honestly I barely have to use it once every five years 😅